The Bike Shed, Melbourne (2026)

07/08/2026

We've been collecting red parts for months just to bring this build together!

This old Sh**un Ground Breaker has been lovingly restored by one of our volunteers, Ant. Featuring an all new 1x9 drivetrain, and gravel ready 700x40 Bontrager GR1 Comp tyres. Plus matching grips, bottle cages, bell and saddle!

44cm seat tube, 54cm top tube. Would suit rider around the 170cm mark.

Available tomorrow, ready to hit the Merri Creek Trail!

17/07/2026

Congratulations to our raffle winners, thankyou so much to our donors, everyone who bought tickets, and our volunteers who pitched in to make it happen!! Keep an eye on your inbox to see if you received some good news from us about the raffle draw!

05/07/2026

Meet the artists performing at our fundraiser party next Sat, including some of the talented volunteers, staff, and mechanics course grads we are lucky to have in the Shed community!
Vital Sparks - you may know him as Andrew, our manager!
Paige Gibson - volunteer and folk musician
Jasmin Win-Ying Leung - mechanics course grad and erhu artist
Studio Norwood Lab - fellow mechanic who unleashes the audio-percussive signature of the everyday bike wheel to create surprising sonic voicings and industrial drones
Double Butted DJs - Bridget and Bee, mechanics course teachers and DJs of variable wall thickness with a degree of flex

Get your tickets via the link in bio or on the door, 3-9PM Sat 11 July at the CERES Pavilion, all funds raised to our mutual aid bikes program.

02/07/2026

✨ MUTUAL AID RAFFLE PRIZES REVEALED ✨
Join us on Saturday 11 July for our mutual aid fundraiser and the draw of our raffle stacked with prizes generously donated by some of our favourite local businesses!

👜 Big Lunch handlebar bag - HUNGRY
🍺 $100 voucher + case of beer - Inner North Brewing Company
🚴‍♀️ $250 voucher - Abbotsford Cycles
🍻 2 x venue vouchers - Bridge Road Brewers
🧖‍♀️ 5 x sauna pass - Sauna Goose
👞 $250 voucher - Birkenstock
🎺 2x Live at RRR show pass + $100 RRR merch voucher - Triple R 102.7FM
🌱 Tray of seedlings + t-shirt basalt buddies pirate nursery
🚵 Bike accessories - KNOG

Every ticket goes directly towards our mutual aid bikes program - over the past two years we’ve given away 180+ bikes (with helmets, lights & locks) to people in our community who need them. This year we’re partnering with the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre to fix up a fresh batch and bring our free mechanics course to people in their network.

Raffle tickets are available to buy at our fundraiser and on our website – link in bio.

Come and support us to support others, and hopefully walk away with a prize from one of the amazing businesses in our community!

19/06/2026

The Bike Shed mutual aid fundraiser party!
Join us to raise funds for our mutual aid bikes program, with a party of live music, an alley cat race, a raffle, dinner, drinks, and an exhibition showcasing the entries to our recent mural competition.

Over the past two years we have given away over 180 fixed-up bikes (and helmets, lights, and locks) to people in the community in need, working with orgs like Palestine Australia Relief and Action, River Nile School, and many others. This year we’ll be working with the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre to fix up a new batch of bikes and bring our bike mechanics course free of charge to people in their network. As a nonprofit organisation who relies on our recycled bike sales to make ends meet, we’d love your support with this project.

Join us at the Pavilion at CERES next to the Bike Shed by the Merri Merri Creek on Wurundjeri Country from 3–9pm. Entry is sliding scale $5-15 with no one turned away for lack of funds. If you can’t attend, consider buying some raffle tickets — stay tuned for details and prizes.

11/05/2026

Riding the Tour Aotearoa, by Ant - a ride report written by one of our volunteers. Part 3. See previous posts for part 1 and 2!

It was so utterly, completely brilliant. Every moment of it - even when it wasn't. The shock of daily early starts lessened, and as my fitness improved, the challenge of riding three long 10-15% gradient climbs in a row hurt less. The 35km stretch of freshly-graded gravel road to start one morning was no fun, but the hour-long conversation I had with a woman who was flagging TA riders down for a coffee break made it worthwhile. It's a little strange - creepy, even - to be flagged down by a complete stranger who knows your name and where you are (we all had trackers / emergency beacons, which allowed people to follow our progress on a website. And it happened multiple times over the 25-odd days it took me to finish.)

People along the way helped make the trip what it was. One night, bedraggled from hours of rain and dealing with a severely strained leg muscle, I knocked on the front door of a house to ask a couple of strangers whether they'd be willing to host me for the night. They did, and I met two wonderfully warm people, who also gave me strong painkillers and antinflammatories to get me back on track. As were the other riders - so many lovely people, so many conversations with them; some I rode with fleetingly, others for days. We supported each other, helped each other, provided spare parts and tools, and lifted each other's spirits.

I camped on the banks of a river on the edge of a mountain range. Overall, I camped one-third of nights. Another night, I was flagged down by a publican who was concerned about TA riders riding too late into the night, and was told to sleep in his pub's beer garden with the other riders he'd already collected. I rescued an injured hawk that was sitting, camouflaged and unnoticed, on the side of a highway.

The largest challenge I now face is readjusting to daily life. The TA shall remain one of the highlights of my entire life, so overwhelmingly brilliant it was. I don't know what shall come next, but I am acutely aware that the TA cannot remain a one-off adventure of this magnitude.

06/05/2026

Riding the Tour Aotearoa, by Ant - a ride report written by one of our volunteers. Part 2. See previous post for part 1!

There wasn't an easy day. For instance, 1100m of climbing over 10km on a gravel road to cross a saddle, then 50km of loose gravel and the 23 water crossings that followed the steep descent into the valley. Or the 'ride' of the Big River Trail, which involved no fun whatsoever - rocks, mud, slippery tree roots, traversing voids to cross fallen trees, pushing up a steep hill while wading in a stream (and scaling a fallen tree) - but so, so much satisfaction upon completing it. Or riding 190km to catch a 2am ferry, sleeping on the floor for a couple of hours, and then setting off for a day of 100km, 1900m of climbing, and some of the hardest (and rockiest) riding I've ever attempted. I scared myself many times that day. Fast, flowing singletrack, bike trails, and country highways - the TA has it all.

Some days were short - only 6 1/2 hours of riding. My longest day was almost 13 1/2 hours and 190km, and a lot of climbing. I lost a couple of days due to life issues (it's easy to forget that the rest of the world carries on as normal) and bicycle repairs. This included two new tyres - I'd narrowly avoided disaster when my front tyre almost failed spectacularly on the hardest downhill section of the TA. But overall my bike was brilliant. Sure, a few people had made disparaging comments about it along the way ("What, you couldn't find any 32-inch wheels?"), but most people were supportive - even if slightly bemused - of my choice. My backside discovered new locations to have saddle sores. I replaced new bottom bracket after 2000km, my bottles cages snapped off multiple times, and I discovered my rear brake cable had almost snapped just before a long, steep descent. And I still cannot feel all of my toes, a month after finishing.

Final part coming soon!

04/05/2026

Riding the Tour Aotearoa, by Ant - a ride report written by one of our volunteers. Part 1.

At sunrise on 26 February I was at Cape Reinga, the northernmost point of mainland New Zealand, on a city cargo bike with 20" wheels and a full bikepacking kit, about to set off on a 3000km adventure to Bluff, the southernmost point of the NZ mainland. Along with 200 other people riding gravel bikes, hardtail and full suspension mountain bikes. And nobody else with rim brakes, let alone 20" wheels or a bike designed for a basket.

Words cannot fully describe what completing the Tour Aotearoa (TA) brevet is like. The TA brevet is not a race - there is no prize or glory for being first to finish. Finishing must be between 10 and 30 days, following a set route, and complying with a few basic rules. And riding 3000km of roads, trails, tracks, and water crossings (including five boats), through some of the most spectacular landscapes imaginable - subtropical rainforest, alpine tussock landscapes, lakes, coastal roads, so many hills and mountains, and on the beach.

Taking my time by setting off 15 minutes after almost everybody else (it's not a race, remember?), I was underway. 15km and some nasty hills later - all earlier than I usually wake up, I turned towards the beach. Reaching the beach involved cycling a few kilometres along a gravel road, in a stream on sand, and then pushing at least a kilometre through soft sand. Then it was cycling 80km in a straight line on 90 Mile Beach into a headwind. That's why we started early - to allow the tide to be out far enough for the sand to be hard, but enough time to finish before the tide comes in. It was hard work. I convinced other riders to form a slipstream train, which helped - but it was still a hard first day. The second day was even harder. My muscles already hurt from the beach, and the first climb of the day made them hurt more. The first pie for the day helped. Did you know that NZ has excellent pies? I didn't.

Part 2 coming soon!

20/04/2026

The Bike Shed was happy to provide a bike to MJ recently, who was eager for a new set of wheels so he could go on rides with friends!

Having a bicycle can be an invaluable thing in someone's life, not just for getting to work or going to school, but for a feeling of social inclusion and self-sufficiency. The incredible support we receive through donations and the hard work of our volunteers allows us to provide refurbished bikes to people like MJ, as well as helping us to continue offering our fix-your-own-bike workshops free of charge to those in need.

If you work for a social care organisation and know of someone who you think would benefit from a free bicycle, please get in touch to refer them at [email protected]. We do our best to help whenever we can. This includes bikes for smaller children.

20/04/2026

We have been so happy to see how popular our fix-your-own-bike workshops have become, and are often amazed at how many folk turn up to make use of our tools, perform repairs, and learn about bicycle maintenance from our volunteers.

Anyone who has visited recently will know that we can get quite busy, and there is often a bit of a wait to be seen. We really appreciate everyone's patience as they wait in the queue, and as we help participants as they work.

To help things run smoothly, we've put together some FAQs (slide 2). Please read these before coming along so you know what to expect.

As these workshops are primarily staffed by volunteers who give up their time to help, some sessions there will be more of us to help than others. Stands are available on a first come, first serve basis. Last admission is generally 4pm. However, we have frequently had to cut off the line earlier to ensure we are finished by 5pm.

We have updated our pricing slightly to help keep these sessions more sustainable. We continue to offer these workshops free of charge to anyone experiencing financial difficulties, no questions asked - just shoot us an email ahead of time. The cost for students and health care card holders remains unchanged.

For more information, please check out our website.

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